I am always late to the game with TV (because I have lived without a TV for several years ), but thank God for finally getting Netflix.

A month or so ago I started watching Arrested Development because a friend had recommended it to me. I thought it was going to be like Parks and Rec or The Office (which I just could not get into), and the first episode didn't sell me. However, I tried watching another episode here and there, and I became hooked. Some of the episodes are just okay, but other ones leave me in tears and hiccups, and that is awesome.

I'm somewhere around Season 2 right now. I always DIE when Lucille reacts to seeing Gene Parmesan, the undercover investigator. Most of the cast is just amazing. Will Arnett...they're all great.

My husband, who initially rolled his eyes when I watched it, has started to join me on the couch. Last night, he graced me with the one sentence that I know is our concession that we like the other person's CD/TV show but we don't want to admit it. "Oh hun, you can watch another episode." (I should know because I say the same exact things for some of his SciFi shows. )

I am also finally trying to watch all of the TV shows my mother banned me from watching when I was a teenager. I'm just starting Felicity. What an insane premise. I'll see after 10 episodes how I'm feeling about it. (Shows down the drain already, Dawson's Creek, One Tree Hill).

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She's touring the facility/and picking up slack.--"For in much wisdom is much grief, and he who increases knowledge increases sorrow." Ecclesiastes 1:18--I once believed in causes too, I had my pointless point of view --Life went on no matter who was wrong or right

Oh, sorry, I didn't make it clear. I used to watch what I could on my computer (didn't have a great internet connection a few years ago). We now have an old TV, but it's not hooked up to anything. I have a Wii, so we just access Netflix through it.

But I used to live with some DVDs and those portable DVD players!

We should probably get the antenna for basic channels, but we read the news, so eh.

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She's touring the facility/and picking up slack.--"For in much wisdom is much grief, and he who increases knowledge increases sorrow." Ecclesiastes 1:18--I once believed in causes too, I had my pointless point of view --Life went on no matter who was wrong or right

I'm always watching scrubs, 30 rock, the Office, Parks and Rec, South Park, and the Simpsons, while enjoying a nice glass of wine.

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"For, by its immensity, the divine substance surpasses every form that our intellect reaches. Thus we are unable to apprehend it by knowing what it is. Yet we are able to have some knowledge of it by knowing what it is not." - St. Thomas Aquinas, Summa contra gentiles, I, 14.

Island at War, a British WWII drama mini-series from a few years back.

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But it had not been in Tess's power - nor is it in anybody's power - to feel the whole truth of golden opinions while it is possible to profit by them. She - and how many more - might have ironically said to God with Saint Augustine, "Thou hast counselled a better course than thou hast permitted."

"as [you've] informed us that respect chills love, it is natural to conclude that all your pretty flights arise from your pampered sensibility; and that, vain of this fancied preeminence of organs, you foster every emotion till the fumes, mounting to your brain, dispel the sober suggestions of reason. It is not in this view surprising that when you should argue you become impassioned, and that reflection inflames your imagination instead of enlightening your understanding." - Mary Wollstonecraft

After I watch The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly, I'm going to take on the entire sixth season (the season most recently completed and now on DVD) of the new Doctor Who series. That will probably take me a month. Thank God for Netflix!

I've been watching Michael Palin's BBC travel documentaries via Netflix. Finished Himalaya and Sahara and am now on to New Europe (ie. post-Soviet Eastern Europe). Next is Full Circle, which is a trip around the Pacific, and Hemingway Adventure, significant places in the author's life.

I've been watching Michael Palin's BBC travel documentaries via Netflix. Finished Himalaya and Sahara and am now on to New Europe (ie. post-Soviet Eastern Europe). Next is Full Circle, which is a trip around the Pacific, and Hemingway Adventure, significant places in the author's life.

I have a real soft spot for those shows. Enjoy

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Your idea has been debunked 1000 times already.. Maybe 1001 will be the charm

About the only current show I really care for anymore is NCIS. Other than that I watch an occasional classic movie (30's & 40's) on TCM and an occasional programme on PBS. I used to watch History Channel until they decided to go Reality, conspiracy, alien garbage, trucker shows, and "faux redneck" variants of Antiques Roadshow. H2 has a bit more history, but not much. Sadly, it's all about quantity (viewers and commercial sponsors = $$$) or quality. It is true they are bringing in more viewers and sponsors with the format change, but they were doing very well when they just did solid history. This info came from a former History Channel employee. NatGeo and Discovery has basically gone the same way. Seems like there isn't much of a place for true educational programming at present.

I did watch Military Channel for awhile, but I feel I've been through WWII more times than than my grandfathers who fought in it. Not to mention... who in their right mind wants to spend hours on end with Hitler??? Smithsonian Channel has good stuff, but repeats it's programming way to much.

I'm thinking about ditching the cable and telly (one channel on occasion isn't worth it). I can watch NCIS online through the CBS website the next day. I'm finding myself reading a lot more and listening to recordings of Old Time Radio shows and newscasts. Great entertainment and you aren't hypnotized like you get in front of the telly, as your imagination comes in to play (radio used to be called The Theatre of the Mind). Plus, it's much, much cleaner!

Courtrney would make a fun girlfriend but Ben doesn't have quite enough testosterone to reign her in.. Not a wife candidate.

They are teasing that he sends her home next week.

Blakeley is all make-up plus lots of T and A. She may actually be too over the top for any man to ask her out even though she is a 10. I beleive may be unapproachable by mortal men and thus not asked out too often.

Rachel, the Blonde he did keep around is also extremely beautiful but has an introspective personality. She may be the dark horse candidate to win.

The one he sent home at the end of the show ( cant remember her name), the one that straddled him in a desperate last move, was a mercy killing.

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Your idea has been debunked 1000 times already.. Maybe 1001 will be the charm

Is anyone else excited to see what kind of drama Mike "The Situation" is gonna stir up tonight??

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Even if we have thousands of acts of great virtue to our credit, our confidence in being heard must be based on God's mercy and His love for men. Even if we stand at the very summit of virtue, it is by mercy that we shall be saved.